THE OX HUNT
ROLE
Game Designer // Main Dev
DESCRIPTION
A game concept suiting for the Chinese New Year, the year of the Ox, and built an 3D escape room/ puzzle semi open world exploring game. The game was developed by a team of 2 people.
YEAR
2021
GENRE
Action-adventure // Puzzle
PLATFORM
Pc & AR companion App
STORY // LORE
STORY // LORE
In China and surrounding areas, a calendrical system consisting of measuring time in cycles of twelve represented by twelve line-up animal has an ancient historical past.
Chinese New Year arrived and trying to corrupt the cycle system of time by each one stealing a statue, then arrives the four perils, the four malevolent beings known has Hundun representing chaos, Taotie standing for gluttony, Táowù signifying ignorance and providing confusion and apathy to mere mortals and Qióngqí representing deviousness, however one more statue has been stolen, the ox statue, which a mystery that is uncovered on the last phase of the story arc.
One of the main characters, Qīnglóng, the reincarnated symbol of the Azure Dragon, one of the four guardians of chinese mythology, comes in to protect the time cycle and ends up being trapped in the first escape room scenario, however, has a certain maneuver when it comes to dragon related puzzles.
LEVELS
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Snake’s nest
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Rabbit’s maze
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Tigron’s cave
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Dragon fangs